Australian Capital Territory Numbered Acts

DISCRIMINATION ACT 1991 (NO. 81 OF 1991) - SECT 33

33. (1) Nothing in section 10 or 13 renders it unlawful for a person to discriminate against another person in connection with—

(a)     employment as a member of the staff of an educational institution; or

(b)     a position as a contract worker that involves the doing of work in an educational institution;

being an institution that is conducted in accordance with the doctrines, tenets, beliefs or teachings of a particular religion or creed, if the first-mentioned person so discriminates in good faith in order to avoid injury to the religious susceptibilities of adherents of that religion or creed.

(2) Nothing in section 18 renders it unlawful for a person to discriminate against another person in connection with the provision of education or training by an educational institution that is conducted in accordance with the doctrines, tenets, beliefs or teachings of a particular religion or creed, if the first-mentioned person so discriminates in good faith in order to avoid injury to the religious susceptibilities of adherents of that religion or creed.

Division 2—Exceptions relating to sex, marital status or pregnancy